Seagate Streamlines Barracuda Product Family & Launches 1TB Platter Hard Drives

Seagate is streamlining its flagship family of desktop drives under a single product that hones in on performance and big capacities to help satisfy the explosive growth in content creation and consumption by businesses and consumers worldwide. The new Barracuda family makes it easier for consumers to find the product they need and reduces costs for Seagates original equipment manufacturer and distribution channel customers by reducing the number of product qualifications and amount of inventory they need to manage. The simplification of the Barracuda family comes as Seagate begins volume shipments of its 1TB-per-disk Barracuda hard drive. Seagate plans to end production of its Barracuda Green drive in February 2012. Seagate analysis shows that its new Barracuda drives have a nearly identical power-consumption profile as energy-efficient desktop drives but deliver much higher performance. Barracuda XT, Seagates fastest desktop hard drive, will be folded into the new Barracuda family and re-emerge, in name, as the companys desktop solid state hybrid drive. Pictured below is the new Seagate 3TB Barracuda hard drive that features three 1TB disk platters.